A few weeks ago Google announced April 21, 2015 as the deadline for making your site mobile-friendly. What does this means for your website and how you can adapt? Today’s we answer those questions and more as the next phase in mobile SEO and mobile-friendly web development gets underway. Existing Vermont Design Works clients, please take note!

Since the turn of the millennium we’ve had to evolve our online marketing and SEO strategies to fit the latest search trends while ensuring we don’t run afoul of ever changing search engine best practice guidelines. This year has been no exception. Today I’m going to take a look back at what changed about SEO and SEM in 2014 – and then, once again, I will don my absurdly large Miss Cleo hat, and attempt to predict the internet of the future

If you’re trying to figure out how to submit your sitemap/website URLs to Google for indexing, then you’ve come to the right place. In today’s post, we’ll show you how to set up a Google Webmaster tools account, verify that you own your site, and then submit your XML sitemap.

Today, on the Analytics blog, Google announced the launch of their new “Google Tag Manager” product. What does the tag manager do? Google says that Tag Manager was created to provide marketers with the ability to add tags (tracking codes, etc.) to their websites without having to bother IT people. Essentially it’s a “cut out the middleman” tool for marketers, allowing them to add, remove and change tags on their own. But are there any risks?

As tempting as it might seem when you’ve got a website your want to rank quickly, don’t ever get involved with link building schemes that promise you things like “10,000 backlinks for $99″. These are blackhat SEOs trying to trick Google’s ranking algorithms with webspam and when Google catches on (and they always do eventually), it’s YOUR site that’s punished – not the shady weasels you hired to build your links. This issue is once again in the forefront after Google Webmaster Tools sent out its second notification of the year regarding suspicious, unnatural backlinks.

In this post we’ll examine the differences in the messages Google WMT sent out this week and the more dire warnings they sent back in March. We’ll also discuss what actions you should take now, if any and why Google has decided to change up the language in their unnatural inbound link messages.

For years SEOs have racked their brains trying to figure out how to get their websites an their clients’ websites to rank #1 in Google. Google has understandably never provided details on just how to accomplish this goal because whenever they’ve given an inch in the past, blackhat SEO webspammers have taken a mile. But today that all changes. In a compilation of clips Matt Cutts probably hoped had never seen the light of day, we learn exactly what it takes to get a website ranked above all other Google search results.

In an age when Google seems to be punishing (through lower rankings) legitimate websites, while rewarding a lot of spammers/black-hat SEOs, all while telling us they’re introducing great improvements to their search algorithms, it seems particularly funny to see the folks at Google Webmaster Tools can’t even follow their own best practices for tags.

Everyone is very pleased with the ease and organization of the new site! Same goes for the brochure. We are all so impressed with the layout of the schedules. In the past we have had so much trouble laying these schedules out in an easy, understandable manner. You all did this so well for us!